Hidaya

No Name Nomad

De: K.H. Neven

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Hidaya describes the author’s journey from an irreligious materialistic life to one full of meaning and closeness to God. He leaves his home-country and former life, trusting in God and His promise. He tries to get rid of all materialistic things and walks thousands of kilometers without money, passport and baggage, and finally finds his true identity on a little dugout in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
The book describes the attempt to follow, without compromise, one’s own intuitions and the inner guide. The author compares his intuitions and outer situations with waves. These waves one has to recognize and ‘to ride’ if they should bring one to new shores because the rational analysis of a situation and its logical conclusion never suffice to adjust oneself to the constant flow of life and God’s will. Surfing becomes him a symbol, and the author starts it also on the material plane to better understand its laws. This brings him to an island south-west of Sumatra where are some of the highest waves in the world. There he gets an English translation of the Koran and the waves get a name: Hidaya.